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InspireMD Announces Expected Retirement of its CFO Craig Shore and CFO Transition in 2025

MIAMI, Dec. 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — InspireMD, Inc. (Nasdaq: NSPR), developer of the CGuard™ Embolic Prevention Stent System (EPS) for the prevention of stroke, today announced that Craig Shore, Chief Financial Officer, has decided to retire from the Company after a successor CFO is identified and appointed. Mr. Shore will remain as CFO until his successor is appointed and will assist in a smooth and orderly transition.

InspireMD Announces First Patient Enrolled in the CGUARDIANS II Pivotal Study of the CGuard Prime Carotid Stent System in Transcarotid Artery Revascularization Procedures (TCAR)

Study represents a significant step forward in Company’s mission to serve the broadest set of physician and patient needs with best-in-class CAS and TCAR solutions Study represents a significant step forward in Company’s mission to serve the broadest set of physician and patient needs with best-in-class CAS and TCAR solutions

InspireMD Announces Inducement Grants Under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4)

MIAMI, Nov. 08, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — InspireMD, Inc. (Nasdaq: NSPR), developer of the CGuard™ Prime carotid stent system for the prevention of stroke, today announced that the Compensation Committee of InspireMD’s Board of Directors approved inducement grants to five new non-executive employees in the aggregate amount of 197,167 shares of restricted stock outside of InspireMD’s 2021 Equity Compensation Plan, with a grant date as of October 24, 2024, as an inducement material to the employee entering into employment with InspireMD, in accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4).

InspireMD Announces Full Exercise of Series H Warrant Tranche for Gross Proceeds of $17.9 Million

Series H warrants exercisable following release of positive outcomes results related to one-year follow-up from the Company’s C-GUARDIANS pivotal trial. Participating warrant holders include Marshall Wace, OrbiMed, Rosalind, Nantahala, Soleus, Velan, and certain InspireMD Board members. Represents first of four milestone-driven warrant tranches pursuant to private placement financing of up to $113.6 million announced in May 2023. TEL AVIV, Israel and WESTIN, Fla., July 01, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — InspireMD, Inc. (Nasdaq: NSPR), developer of the CGuard™ Embolic Prevention Stent System (EPS) for the prevention of stroke, today announced the completion of the full exercise of 12.9 million Series H warrants. The Series H warrants were converted primarily into pre-funded warrants. The gross proceeds to the company from the warrant exercise were $17.9 million, and $16.9 million after fees. The Series H warrants were issued as part of the transformational private placement financing of up to $113.6 million that InspireMD announced in May 2023. The Series H warrants became exercisable following the release of positive results related to one-year follow-up from the Company’s C-GUARDIANS pivotal trial of the CGuard Carotid Stent System. Participating warrant holders include Marshall Wace, OrbiMed, Rosalind, Nantahala, Soleus, Velan, and certain InspireMD Board members. Marvin Slosman, chief executive officer of InspireMD, stated, “We are grateful for the continued support of these highly regarded healthcare investors, who have elected to exercise 100% of the available Series H warrants. This capital strengthens our business and helps fuel our growth, including advancing our CGuard Prime Carotid Stent System through to potential FDA approval and U.S. launch in the first half of next year. CGuard is a highly differentiated stent implant that delivers superior short- and long-term patient outcomes, as reflected in the best-in-class evidence that was reported at both the VIVA 2023 and LINC 2024 conferences. Looking ahead, we are working to catalyze these milestones to continue building momentum toward commercialization, while advancing both our CAS and TCAR programs to address the broadest range of physicians and patient needs of any company within the field of carotid revascularization.” About InspireMD, Inc.InspireMD seeks to utilize its proprietary MicroNet® technology to make its products the industry standard for carotid stenting by providing outstanding acute results and durable, stroke-free long-term outcomes. InspireMD’s common stock is quoted on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol NSPR. We routinely post information that may be important to investors on our website. For more information, please visit www.inspiremd.com. Forward-looking StatementsThis press release contains “forward-looking statements.” Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding InspireMD or its management team’s expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. Such statements may be preceded by the words “intends,” “may,” “will,” “plans,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “projects,” “predicts,” “estimates,” “aims,” “believes,” “hopes,” “potential”, “scheduled” or similar words. Examples of such statements include, but are not limited to, statements relating to the C-Guardians U.S. IDE clinical trial, including one-year results from such trial presented at LINC 2024, as well as the timing and outcome of any subsequent results, PMA or potential launch, and statements relating to expectations regarding future warrant exercises or expected proceeds therefrom. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, are based on certain assumptions and are subject to various known and unknown risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the company’s control, and cannot be predicted or quantified and consequently, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, risks and uncertainties associated with our history of recurring losses and negative cash flows from operating activities, significant future commitments and the uncertainty regarding the adequacy of our liquidity to pursue our complete business objectives, and substantial doubt regarding our ability to continue as a going concern; our need to raise additional capital to meet our business requirements in the future and such capital raising may be costly or difficult to obtain and could dilute out stockholders’ ownership interests; market acceptance of our products; an inability to secure and maintain regulatory approvals for the sale of our products; negative clinical trial results or lengthy product delays in key markets; our ability to maintain compliance with the Nasdaq listing standards; our ability to generate revenues from our products and obtain and maintain regulatory approvals for our products; our ability to adequately protect our intellectual property; our dependence on a single manufacturing facility and our ability to comply with stringent manufacturing quality standards and to increase production as necessary; the risk that the data collected from our current and planned clinical trials may not be sufficient to demonstrate that our technology is an attractive alternative to other procedures and products; intense competition in our industry, with competitors having substantially greater financial, technological, research and development, regulatory and clinical, manufacturing, marketing and sales, distribution and personnel resources than we do; entry of new competitors and products and potential technological obsolescence of our products; inability to carry out research, development and commercialization plans; loss of a key customer or supplier; technical problems with our research and products and potential product liability claims; product malfunctions; price increases for supplies and components; insufficient or inadequate reimbursement by governmental and other third-party payers for our products; our efforts to successfully obtain and maintain intellectual property protection covering our products, which may not be successful; adverse federal, state and local government regulation, in the United States, Europe or Israel and other foreign jurisdictions; the fact that we conduct business in multiple foreign jurisdictions, exposing us to foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations, logistical and communications challenges, burdens and costs of compliance with foreign laws and political and economic instability in each jurisdiction; the escalation of hostilities in Israel, which could impair our ability to manufacture our products; and current or future unfavorable economic and market conditions and adverse developments with respect to financial institutions and associated liquidity risk. More detailed information about the Company and the risk factors that may affect the realization of forward-looking statements is set forth in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K and its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Investors and security holders are urged to read these documents free of charge on the SEC’s web site at http://www.sec.gov. The Company assumes no obligation to publicly update or revise its forward-looking statements as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Investor Contacts: Craig ShoreChief Financial OfficerInspireMD, Inc.888-776-6804craigs@inspiremd.com Chuck Padala, Managing DirectorLifeSci Advisors646-627-8390chuck@lifesciadvisors.cominvestor-relations@inspiremd.com

InspireMD Announces Presentation of Positive One-Year Follow-Up Results from the C-GUARDIANS U.S. Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) Clinical Trial of CGuard at LINC 2024  

Data demonstrate lowest reported primary endpoint event rate of 1.95% through twelve months post-procedure for any carotid stent or embolic protection device pivotal trial Study results to support a Premarket Approval (PMA) application to FDA in H2 2024 U.S. commercial launch of the CGuard™ Prime Carotid Stent System anticipated in H1 2025, if approved TEL AVIV, Israel, and MIAMI, May 28, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — InspireMD, Inc. (Nasdaq: NSPR), developer of the CGuard™ Embolic Prevention Stent System (EPS) for the prevention of stroke, today announced the presentation of positive one-year outcomes from its C-GUARDIANS IDE clinical trial of the CGuard™ Carotid Stent System for the treatment of carotid artery stenosis at this year’s Leipzig Interventional Course (LINC) 2024, which is being held May 28-31, in Leipzig, Germany. Marvin Slosman, chief executive officer of InspireMD, stated, “We are very pleased to have such a significant presence at this year’s LINC conference, highlighted by a presentation of the primary endpoint results from our C-GUARDIANS clinical study. The independently adjudicated major adverse event rates through one-year are the lowest reported to date from any carotid stent or embolic protection device pivotal trial. With these data in-hand, we now have line of sight to a PMA application in the back half of this year, with preparation ongoing for a robust U.S. commercial launch in the first half of 2025, if approved. In addition to these results, we continue to be enthusiastic about our plans to introduce both CAS and TCAR solutions serving the broadest community of specialists serving the carotid revascularization market with the best implant in CGuard Prime.” Dr. Chris Metzger, M.D., System Vascular Chief at OhioHealth, and lead investigator of the C-GUARDIANS trial, stated, “We are very excited that the one-year carefully adjudicated C-GUARDIANS data confirm the extremely low rates of stoke, death, myocardial infarction, and target vessel revascularization in this prospective trial of high-carotid endarterectomy (CEA) risk patients with obstructive carotid disease, including 25% who were symptomatic. These data confirm the potential ‘neuroprotective properties’ of this unique MicroNet technology, offering an outstanding front-line option to consider for each patient with obstructive carotid artery disease.” Presentation details: Title:One-Year Follow-Up Results from the C-GUARDIANS Pivotal Trial of the CGuard™ Carotid Stent SystemPresenter:Dr. D. Christopher Metzger, System Vascular Chief, OhioHealthDate/time:Tuesday, May 28th at 2:53 pm CEST (8:53am EDT)   Presentation Highlights: From July 2021 to June 2023, 316 patients were prospectively enrolled in this single-arm carotid artery stenting study performed at 24 sites in the US and the EU.The primary endpoint is a composite of: (1) incidence of major adverse events including death (all-cause mortality), any stroke, or myocardial infarction (DSMI) through 30-days post index procedure, or (2) ipsilateral stroke from day 31 to day 365 post-procedure.Stenting with the CGuard carotid stent system in patients with carotid artery stenosis and at high risk for carotid endarterectomy had a primary endpoint event rate of 1.95%, from procedure through 1-year follow-up.The presentation is available on our website at: Clinical Presentations – InspireMD About LINCLINC, the Leipzig Interventional Course, is strongly committed to contributing to a systematic scientific evaluation and interdisciplinary discussion of new methods in the field of vascular medicine, allowing conclusions for daily interventional practice. LINC is an interdisciplinary live course, designed to provide a global platform, permitting the discussion of the “vascular patients” by integrating colleagues of different specialties from around the world who are performing endovascular interventions. For more information, please visit: https://www.leipzig-interventional-course.com/ About C-GUARDIANSThe C-GUARDIANS clinical trial evaluated the safety and efficacy of the CGuard™ Carotid Stent System for the treatment of carotid artery stenosis. The study enrolled 316 patients across 24 trial sites in the U.S. and Europe. The trial included both symptomatic and asymptomatic patients undergoing carotid artery stenting (CAS). The primary endpoint includes the composite of the following: incidence of the following major adverse events: death (all‐ cause mortality), all stroke, or myocardial infarction (DSMI) through 30‐days post‐index procedure, or ipsilateral stroke from 31‐365-day follow‐up, based on the Clinical Events Committee (CEC) independent adjudication. The performance goal will be considered to have been met if the upper bound of the two-sided 95% confidence interval calculated from the observed primary endpoint rate is

InspireMD to Present at the 23rd Annual Needham Virtual Healthcare Conference

TEL AVIV, Israel and MIAMI, April 03, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — InspireMD, Inc. (Nasdaq: NSPR), developer of the CGuard™ Embolic Prevention Stent System (EPS) for the prevention of stroke, today announced that Marvin Slosman, Chief Executive Officer, will deliver a company update presentation at the 23rd Annual Needham Virtual Healthcare Conference, which is being held April 8-11, 2024.

InspireMD Presents Positive 30-Day Follow-Up Results from the C-GUARDIANS U.S. Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) Clinical Trial at VIVA23

Data demonstrate a low major adverse event rate of 0.95% through 30 days post-procedure TEL AVIV, Israel and MIAMI, Nov. 01, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — InspireMD, Inc. (Nasdaq: NSPR), developer of the CGuard™ Embolic Prevention Stent System (EPS) for the […]

InspireMD Supports CMS’ Final National Coverage Determination (NCD) Expanding Coverage of Carotid Stenting (CAS) to Include Both Asymptomatic and Standard Risk Patients

TEL AVIV, Israel and MIAMI, Oct. 12, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — InspireMD, Inc. (Nasdaq: NSPR), developer of the CGuard™ Embolic Prevention Stent System (EPS) for the prevention of stroke, today announced its support for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid […]